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WilliamBoogLeishman (November 6, 1865 - June 2, 1926) was a British (A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis) pathologist.
Leishman also helped elucidate the life cycle of Spirochaeta duttoni, which causes African tick fever, and, with (additional info and facts about Almroth Wright) Almroth Wright, helped develop an effective anti- (Serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water) typhoid innoculation.
Leishman is buried in (additional info and facts about Highgate Cemetery) Highgate Cemetery in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
WilliamBoogLeishman (November 6, 1865 - June 2, 1926) was a British pathologist.
Leishman also helped elucidate the life cycle of Spirochaeta duttoni, which causes African tick fever, and, with Almroth Wright, helped develop an effective anti-typhoid innoculation.
Leishman is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.
Leishman, William Boog(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Leishman was born and educated in Glasgow, and spent his entire career in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Leishman discovered the protozoan parasite that causes kala-azar in 1900, using a technique now called Leishman's stain, to examine cells from the spleen of a soldier who had died of kala-azar.
Leishman also assisted his colleague Almroth Wright (1861-1947) in developing an effective antityphoid inoculation, and helped to elucidate the life cycle of the spirochaete Spirochaeta duttoni, which causes African tick fever.
William Boog Leishman(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
WilliamBoogLeishman (November 6, 1865 - June 2, 1926) was aBritish pathologist.
In 1900 he was made Assistant Professor of Pathology inthe Army Medical School, and described a method of staining blood for malaria andother parasites -- a modification and simplification of the existing Romanowsky method using a compound of Methylene Blue and eosin, which became known as Leishman's stain.
Leishman also helped elucidate the life cycle of Spirochaeta duttoni, which causes African tick fever, and, with Almroth Wright, helpeddevelop an effective anti- typhoid innoculation.
He was the first to explain the action of a catalyst in terms of the formation of an intermediate compound.
For his contribution to analytic chemistry and the study of atomic theory he was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
His expeditions have included the first descent and exploration of the Blue Nile 1968; the journey N to S from Alaska to Cape Horn, crossing the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia for the first time 1971-72; and the first complete navigation of the Congo-Zaïre River, Africa 1974-75.
He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and received the prestigious Schaudinn Prize for the best work in protozoology and tropical medicine, on June 22, 1912.
The contenders were luminaries such as Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), Emile Roux (1853-1933), Ilya Mechnikov (1845-1916), Charles Laveran (1845-1922), Charles Nicolle (1866-1936) and Sir WilliamBoogLeishman (1865-1926), several of them who had already received or would receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Chagas was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, in 1913 and 1921, but never received the award.
The Scottish physician Dr. WilliamBoogLeishman, later Director-General of the medical service of the British Army, carried out the autopsy.
The Irish physician Dr. Charles Donovan investigated splenic aspirates (needle biopsies of the spleen) from kala azar patients and confirmed Leishman’s discovery.
The manner in which the transmission takes place was for a long time a mystery.
In the 19th century, kala-azar ravaged much of eastern India, where it earned its name--Hindi for "fl sickness." In 1900 a British physician, Dr.
WilliamBoogLeishman, developed a stain to detect the parasite with a microscope, and Dr. Charles Donovan demonstrated that specimens could be extracted from the spleen.
In their honor, the deadly parasite is called Leishmania donovani.
